For his previous book, photographer Eric Meola invited the viewer to witness the power of storms. Fierce Beauty documented Meola's long-held passion for extreme weather conditions and its astonishing ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking discovery: a material capable of bending light in unprecedented ways. This advancement opens up possibilities for innovations in optics, including superlenses ...

We can bend light around corners. I know it sounds crazy, and it looks crazy when you see it in action for the first time. But, the advancements that this new technique could help usher in are ...

(Nanowerk News) Optical cloaking allows objects to be hidden in plain sight or to become invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the cloak. While cloaking has been popularized in ...

Scientists in Japan have managed to manipulate light as though it was being influenced by gravity. By carefully distorting a photonic crystal, the team was able to invoke “pseudogravity” to bend a ...

Solar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an off-grid home or for the power grid. With no moving parts maintenance is relatively low, and the downsides of burning ...

Researchers have used a special crystal to bend the trajectory of light like a black hole would, a phenomenon known as 'pseudogravity.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers explore alternative recording systems using light and microscopic dots and dashes. From clay tablets to magnetic tape, civilizations have found ways to store important information; however ...

The first thing you notice when you walk into Women & Their Work, an East Austin contemporary art gallery and nonprofit, is the butt of a missile. The six-foot-high shape is suspended in a fragment of ...

Sarah Kim, exhibition manager for Currents New Media, bends and manipulates rays of light in the installation Memory Planes on Wednesday in El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the Railyard. The piece was ...